Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/TouchBar

Introduction

There are three concepts in this design:

• The url/search bar
• The touch bar
• Overview areas

The Url/Search Bar

The URL/Search bar is considered to be the very top of every page. Like on the iPhone, it scrolls with the page, and thus can be scrolled out of view. To get to it, the user either scrolls to the top of the page or uses the touch bar to automatically scroll to the url/search bar (I'll come back to this).

The great benefit of this method is that because the location of the url/search bar is part of the page, the interface retains a sense of physicality -- the user always knows where to find it because of the consistency of physical objects.

The bar borrows from Madhava's Proposal8 in that when a url is entered, the button reads "go"; and when a non-url is entered, the button reads "search".